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HappyPuppy

Lifer
You can go to Home Depot and walk the aisles in peace and serenity. Nobody bothers you while you peruse the merchandise and dream of buying that new Mag 77 or Bosch Colt. You can carress the tablesaws, fondle the RotoZips and even clutch the DeWalt 6 piece combo 18 volt to your chest and press your lips to it in a fit of ecstasy without being bothered by any of the hired clones. They respect your privacy.

At Lowe's, in contrast, you can't sneeze without some buttwipe asking if you need a tissue or getting in your way as you navigate the aisles. The bastards just won't leave you alone! As you are fondling a cheap piece of shit Firestorm drill some company retard will inevitably approach you and attempt to lead you away from that vile maker of holes and lead you to something more appopriate. How I hate those bastards!

From now on I'm shopping at the 99 cent store.
 
Well, we just got Lowes in our country and if their TV ads are any indication, their high level of "service" is suppose to be the great separator.
 
I love just walking around Home Depot in peace. It's relaxing. It's like being on vacation. So at ease. It's always the best when you aren't working and you get to go there in your normal clothes just to pick up some little thing. It feels like when everyone is in school but you have the day off and get to run around free.
 
The reason no one bothers you in Home Depot is because there are not many present at any given time and the sum of those IQs usually equals less than a normal single human biengs IQ. Home Depot is like the Special Olympics of the home improvement stores. You are actually better off guessing than asking for help.
 
There are usually people around at Home Depot until you need them....they can somehow sense it and everyone seems to take a break in a back room somewhere at the same time.

As for the Lowes folks, they're much more helpful when you need to find something or need advice. If they get on my nerves, I just treat them the way I do the Gideons. I snarl at them before they can form a sentence.
 
Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
You can go to Home Depot and walk the aisles in peace and serenity. Nobody bothers you while you peruse the merchandise and dream of buying that new Mag 77 or Bosch Colt. You can carress the tablesaws, fondle the RotoZips and even clutch the DeWalt 6 piece combo 18 volt to your chest and press your lips to it in a fit of ecstasy without being bothered by any of the hired clones. They respect your privacy.

At Lowe's, in contrast, you can't sneeze without some buttwipe asking if you need a tissue or getting in your way as you navigate the aisles. The bastards just won't leave you alone! As you are fondling a cheap piece of shit Firestorm drill some company retard will inevitably approach you and attempt to lead you away from that vile maker of holes and lead you to something more appopriate. How I hate those bastards!

From now on I'm shopping at the 99 cent store.
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And here I always thought that that slick film covering some of the tools at Home Depot was oil from the manufacturing process. :Q
 
I dropped a sheet of 4 x 8 hardiboard onto my toes at Home Depot. I layed down on stack of sheet rock in the fetal position holding my foot. The home depot folks left me alone while I tried not to cry like a baby.
 
Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
You can go to Home Depot and walk the aisles in peace and serenity. Nobody bothers you while you peruse the merchandise and dream of buying that new Mag 77 or Bosch Colt. You can carress the tablesaws, fondle the RotoZips and even clutch the DeWalt 6 piece combo 18 volt to your chest and press your lips to it in a fit of ecstasy without being bothered by any of the hired clones. They respect your privacy.

At Lowe's, in contrast, you can't sneeze without some buttwipe asking if you need a tissue or getting in your way as you navigate the aisles. The bastards just won't leave you alone! As you are fondling a cheap piece of shit Firestorm drill some company retard will inevitably approach you and attempt to lead you away from that vile maker of holes and lead you to something more appopriate. How I hate those bastards!

From now on I'm shopping at the 99 cent store.
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The tradeoff is that you can never find anyone to actually help you in HD. People at Lowes (at least in the midwest) are generally more knowledgeable and less bitchy. Of course, YMMV, particularly in the flooring department, which seems to be full of knuckle-draggers no matter where you go.
 
Originally posted by: Ronstang
The reason no one bothers you in Home Depot is because there are not many present at any given time and the sum of those IQs usually equals less than a normal single human biengs IQ. Home Depot is like the Special Olympics of the home improvement stores. You are actually better off guessing than asking for help.
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The hell of it is, that at least here, the folks who are at Home Depot are far more knowledgable than their counterparts at Lowes. Sure, there may be more of them, but if knowledge was gasoline, collectively the Lowes crew wouldn't have enough to power a piss-ant's motorcycle around the inside ring of a Cheerio.

About the only thing ANY of them is good for, is pointing you to (hopefully) the right aisle with the stuff you're looking for...other than that...my dog is more helpful....
 
Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
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That was uncalled for. MODS, he made me cry, ban him!
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WTF? That extension isn't working - it was supposed to link you directly to TBone48's post.

Bah, freaking Fusetalk failboat.jpg. /shakes head, mumbles incoherently
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When you go to Krogers or Albertson's and ask a clerk where the Cheerios are do you expect them to hold your hand and lead you to them? If a pimplefarmer/oldguywhoknowsabit/tradesman working at Lowe's HD can tell you which aisle to look in while surrounded by five people who have just a "quick question" how can you fault him? Or were you one of those five people who had "just a quick question"?

 
Originally posted by: Greenman
Lowe's and Home Depot both suck, around here Lowe's sucks a tiny bit less.

And since you were talking about fondling tools, I just picked up a new saw, this one. http://www.festoolusa.com/Prod...spx?id=3&prodid=561174

really nice tool, grossly overpriced.
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OMG! I would kiss your ass and give you a reacharound just to be in the presence of that saw! If you let me touch it I would allow you to do unspeakable things to my body.
 
Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
Originally posted by: Greenman
Lowe's and Home Depot both suck, around here Lowe's sucks a tiny bit less.

And since you were talking about fondling tools, I just picked up a new saw, this one. http://www.festoolusa.com/Prod...spx?id=3&prodid=561174

really nice tool, grossly overpriced.
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OMG! I would kiss your ass and give you a reacharound just to be in the presence of that saw! If you let me touch it I would allow you to do unspeakable things to my body.
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http://forums.anandtech.com/ca...tid=61&flcache=8505259
 
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